Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 -1
Permanent jobs citing Azure 410 405 713
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 8.42% 12.75% 15.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.16% 40.14% 48.77%
Number of salaries quoted 219 303 659
10th Percentile £14,000 £26,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £30,125 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £74,375 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.20% -8.42%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,275 1,009 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.17% 31.77% 32.01%
Number of salaries quoted 581 580 1,299
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,000 £25,600
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 25 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 25 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -17 115 £55,000 - 52
Cambridgeshire +8 87 £63,750 +50.00% 33
Essex -11 68 £41,000 -20.77% 44
Bedfordshire +8 53 £14,000 -72.00% 18
Suffolk +27 46 £47,500 -13.64% 18
Norfolk -1 37 £60,000 +100.00% 17
East Anglia - 4 £95,000 - 15
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (8.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (7.07%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.46%) WordPress
4 4 (0.98%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.73%) CMS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 49 (11.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (1.95%) Dynamics AX
1 8 (1.95%) Dynamics GP
2 5 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.22%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (29.51%) Microsoft 365
2 77 (18.78%) AWS
3 72 (17.56%) Power Platform
4 66 (16.10%) Entra ID
5 46 (11.22%) Azure AI
6 19 (4.63%) SaaS
7 18 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
8 17 (4.15%) GitHub
9 16 (3.90%) GCP
10 15 (3.66%) Snowflake
11 14 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (3.17%) PowerApps
13 12 (2.93%) IaaS
13 12 (2.93%) PaaS
14 11 (2.68%) Power Automate
15 9 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 6 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.46%) OneDrive
17 5 (1.22%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 79 (19.27%) Firewall
2 28 (6.83%) TCP/IP
3 26 (6.34%) DHCP
4 25 (6.10%) VPN
4 25 (6.10%) WAN
5 23 (5.61%) DNS
6 21 (5.12%) LAN
7 13 (3.17%) VLAN
8 12 (2.93%) Internet
9 10 (2.44%) WLAN
10 8 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
11 6 (1.46%) Wireless
12 5 (1.22%) Network Security
12 5 (1.22%) SAN
13 4 (0.98%) Cisco ASA
13 4 (0.98%) DMZ
13 4 (0.98%) IP Telephony
13 4 (0.98%) SD-WAN
14 2 (0.49%) VoIP
15 1 (0.24%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (15.12%) Power BI
2 47 (11.46%) Tableau
3 18 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.20%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (1.46%) MySQL
7 6 (1.46%) Redis
8 5 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (0.98%) Big Data
9 4 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.73%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.73%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.24%) QlikView
12 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.66%) Git
2 9 (2.20%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.73%) JIRA
4 2 (0.49%) MSTest
4 2 (0.49%) NUnit
4 2 (0.49%) SpecFlow
4 2 (0.49%) TestNG
5 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 195 (47.56%) Social Skills
2 47 (11.46%) Finance
3 23 (5.61%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (5.12%) Law
5 11 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
5 11 (2.68%) Multimedia
5 11 (2.68%) Publishing
6 10 (2.44%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.46%) Legal
9 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.98%) Retail
11 3 (0.73%) Banking
11 3 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.73%) Marketing
12 2 (0.49%) Advertising
13 1 (0.24%) Police
13 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 106 (25.85%) Analyst
2 92 (22.44%) Junior
3 88 (21.46%) Junior Analyst
4 71 (17.32%) IT Support
5 44 (10.73%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 44 (10.73%) Data Analyst
5 44 (10.73%) Junior Data Analyst
5 44 (10.73%) Junior Security Analyst
5 44 (10.73%) Security Analyst
6 42 (10.24%) Architect
7 38 (9.27%) Senior
8 34 (8.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (7.80%) IT Engineer
10 31 (7.56%) Developer
10 31 (7.56%) Support Engineer
11 26 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
12 25 (6.10%) 2nd Line Support
13 24 (5.85%) IT Support Engineer
14 22 (5.37%) Lead
14 22 (5.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.63%) CSS
2 16 (3.90%) .NET
3 14 (3.41%) HTML
4 10 (2.44%) REST
5 9 (2.20%) React
6 6 (1.46%) SOAP
6 6 (1.46%) Vue
7 5 (1.22%) jQuery
8 4 (0.98%) PyTorch
8 4 (0.98%) SignalR
8 4 (0.98%) TensorFlow
8 4 (0.98%) Web Services
9 3 (0.73%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.73%) ASP.NET
9 3 (0.73%) ASP.NET Core
9 3 (0.73%) Kafka
9 3 (0.73%) Pandas
9 3 (0.73%) Playwright
9 3 (0.73%) scikit-learn
9 3 (0.73%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 23 (5.61%) Cloud Native
2 16 (3.90%) Cyberattack
3 13 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 7 (1.71%) Low-Code
8 6 (1.46%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 6 (1.46%) Robotics
9 5 (1.22%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.98%) Algorithms
10 4 (0.98%) Blog
10 4 (0.98%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.98%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.98%) PKI
10 4 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 111 (27.07%) Windows
2 80 (19.51%) Windows Server
3 18 (4.39%) Windows 10
4 17 (4.15%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (2.44%) Android
6 10 (2.44%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.71%) Linux
8 5 (1.22%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.22%) VMS
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.24%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (27.07%) Cybersecurity
2 82 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 70 (17.07%) AI
4 64 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (15.37%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (11.46%) Agile
7 46 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (10.00%) ITIL
9 35 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 34 (8.29%) Customer Service
10 34 (8.29%) DevOps
10 34 (8.29%) Roadmaps
11 33 (8.05%) CI/CD
12 29 (7.07%) Analytics
13 27 (6.59%) Software Engineering
14 26 (6.34%) ERP
15 25 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (6.10%) Technology Roadmap
16 21 (5.12%) Event-Driven
16 21 (5.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 77 (18.78%) Python
2 75 (18.29%) SQL
3 34 (8.29%) PowerShell
4 28 (6.83%) C#
5 24 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.44%) R
7 9 (2.20%) PHP
8 7 (1.71%) Java
9 5 (1.22%) Bash
9 5 (1.22%) C++
10 4 (0.98%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.98%) VBScript
11 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.49%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.24%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 138 (33.66%) Azure Certification
2 45 (10.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 44 (10.73%) CompTIA CySA+
3 44 (10.73%) CompTIA Security+
4 42 (10.24%) Degree
5 38 (9.27%) Security Cleared
6 26 (6.34%) AWS Certification
7 24 (5.85%) SC Cleared
8 20 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
9 16 (3.90%) CEH
10 15 (3.66%) CCNA
11 13 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.17%) TOGAF Certification
12 11 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (2.44%) CCNP
14 8 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (1.46%) MCSA
16 5 (1.22%) DBS Check
16 5 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.41%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.95%) QA
4 6 (1.46%) GDPR
4 6 (1.46%) NIST
5 5 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.22%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.98%) GRC
6 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 4 (0.98%) JSP 440
6 4 (0.98%) NCSC
6 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 94 (22.93%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 17 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (3.41%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.68%) Docker
6 7 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.98%) vSphere
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (12.44%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.95%) Ansible
4 7 (1.71%) SCCM
5 5 (1.22%) Terraform
6 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.98%) FortiGate
6 4 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
6 4 (0.98%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.49%) PaperCut
9 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.24%) Grafana
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 282 (68.78%) Microsoft
2 60 (14.63%) ForeScout
3 29 (7.07%) VMware
4 18 (4.39%) SAP
5 17 (4.15%) Cisco
6 15 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 13 (3.17%) Fortinet
8 12 (2.93%) SolarWinds
9 11 (2.68%) Workday
10 10 (2.44%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.95%) CrowdStrike
11 8 (1.95%) Databricks
12 7 (1.71%) Apple
12 7 (1.71%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.71%) Salesforce
13 6 (1.46%) Aruba
13 6 (1.46%) Google
13 6 (1.46%) Pega
14 4 (0.98%) Epicor
14 4 (0.98%) Juniper